chapter 7 assesment

Chapter 7, Section 1

1. How has the development of a postindustrial economy in the United States and Canada affected where and how people live? The development of of a postindustrial economy in both Canada and the United States affects where people live because the company chooses where the product would work best. For example, high-tech companies look for good weather and good location for their factories, also where people would work in them. So a company might make a family move half way cross the country because its the ideal place for their product.

2. How are the economies of the United States and Canada interdependent with each other and with those in other parts of the world? The economies of the United States and Canada are interdependent within each other by imports and exports, also by low cost labor plants. Canada earns mostly as much in exports that the United States spends in exports.

Creative Writing: Write a paragraph about the economies of the United States and Canada that explains how the terms market economy, postindustrial economy, and global economy are related. Both of the United States and Canada have a market economy, postindustrial economy and a global economy. In a market economy, both countries allow their people to own their own business, operate it, and make a profit from it. A market economy lets businesses hire and pay people to work for them, and it allows them to protect private property rights. A postindustrial economy is when the economies put less emphasis on heavy industry and traditional manufacturing and put more emphasis on service and high-tech business. A global economy is when different countries in the world become interconnected and dependent on one and another for goods and services. Canada and the United States are connected through all three of these different economy's.

Chapter 7, Section 2

1. What are examples of three or more ways that the United States and Canada could manage their natural resources more responsibly? Three examples or ways that the United States and Canada could manage their national resources more responsibility are to cut down on using fossil fuels that create smog and part of acid rain. Also power plants and factories need to cut down on releasing so much harmful gasses into the atmosphere. Finally we need to stop dumping harmful chemicals into our water sources, because it damages the wildlife in and around the body of water.

2. What are the causes and effects of pollution in the region? The causes of pollution in the region are harmful chemicals and gases that factories and power plants release into the biosphere. The effect of the pollution is damaging the atmosphere and the land. Smog by air, acid rain by land and chemicals by water.

Creative Writing: The 800-mile (1,300 km) Trans-Alaska Pipeline carries oil from Prudhoe Bay, on the Arctic Ocean, to the port of Valdez, on the Gulf of Alaska. Oil travels through the pipeline at a temperature of over 120° F (80° C). For most of its length, the pipeline is elevated above permafrost to keep the permafrost from thawing. In places the oil is carried in buried, refrigerated pipes. Describe some of the consequences the melting of Arctic permafrost may have on the pipeline over the next 25 years. Some of the consequences of the melting Arctic permafrost is that the permafrost is thawing which is a major factor in this pipeline. Also the pipeline could be blocked because when the permafrost is melting, chunks of the permafrost could block the pipe.